AI Automation for Growing Businesses

Every system you run manually is a system that breaks.

Your team is buried in admin that doesn’t need a human. We build AI agents that handle it — so your people can do the work that actually grows the business.

Guaranteed results in 30 daysWe build, not adviseWorks inside your existing toolsScoutAtlasForgeMeet Scout, Atlas, and Forge
Trusted by businesses across Australia
Nutrition 4 Performance
Schweigen
TCACC
Voyagin Australia
Nutrition 4 Performance
Schweigen
TCACC
Voyagin Australia
Nutrition 4 Performance
Schweigen
TCACC
Voyagin Australia
Nutrition 4 Performance
Schweigen
TCACC
Voyagin Australia
Nutrition 4 Performance
Schweigen
TCACC
Voyagin Australia
Nutrition 4 Performance
Schweigen
TCACC
Voyagin Australia
Live metrics
44,228800+

Hours saved for clients

884477+

Workflows automated

$22,110000,000000

Client revenue generated

Is this for you?

We are not for everyone

For you if

  • You’re growing faster than your ops can handle
  • Repetitive work is eating your team’s best hours
  • You want AI that works inside your existing tools — not another platform
  • You value shipped outcomes over strategy decks

Not for you if

  • You want a slide deck, not a deployed system
  • You’re looking for the cheapest chatbot on the market
  • You don’t have repeatable processes worth automating
  • You’re not ready to invest in how your team operates
Results

Results across real operations

5+ hrs/week

Saved per person, guaranteed in 30 days

Admin quartered

“Our admin hours have quartered since working together.” — Toby Chilver, Voyagin

“The early results from the project are incredible. Our admin hours have quartered since working together.”
Toby Chilver
Founder, Voyagin Australia

The consulting process was well executed and I am very happy with the improvements. I highly recommend them to any business.

Edwina Hodgkinson
Nutrition 4 Performance

Hourglass Digital is the partner you want. Smart, reliable, and genuinely invested in outcomes. Highly recommended.

Jay Little
Schweigen

This was tremendously efficient. All in all, a really great first experience

Robert Honan
TCACC

The early results from the project are incredible. Our admin hours have quartered since working together.

Toby Chilver
Voyagin Australia
How it works

It’s as easy as one, two, three

1

Audit

$2,000 – $10,0007 – 14 days

We find where your team’s time disappears. You get a prioritised roadmap showing exactly what to automate first — and what it’s worth.

2

Build

$5,000 – $10,000 per agentQuick wins in 30 days

We deploy AI agents into the tools you already use. No migration. No learning curve. Just less busywork, starting week one.

3

Maintain

Monthly retainerAlways improving

Systems that improve every month. We monitor, refine, and expand — so the gains compound instead of decay.

The AI Efficiency Audit

A structured audit of your team’s workflows, tools, and pain points — delivered as a prioritised AI roadmap with ROI projections for every recommendation.

1

Discovery Call

A 30-minute call to understand your business, team structure, and where AI could make the biggest impact.

2

Team Interviews

We interview key team members to map their workflows, pain points, and the tasks that eat their time.

3

Your AI Strategy

You get a complete AI roadmap with prioritised builds, ROI projections, and a security assessment.

Five deliverables. Zero fluff.

Systems Map

A visual map of your current tools, workflows, and integrations — where data flows and where it gets stuck.

Quick Wins Playbook

Immediate, low-effort automations you can implement this week. Each with estimated time savings and ROI.

Custom AI Roadmap

A phased plan of AI builds prioritised by impact, from quick wins to strategic transformations.

ROI Calculator

Live projections showing hours saved, cost reduction, and payback period for every recommendation.

Security Assessment

A risk analysis covering data handling, compliance, and AI-specific security considerations.

50+

Workflows audited

2–3x

Average ROI in year one

< 3 weeks

From kickoff to strategy

You don’t have a people problem. You have a systems problem.

Your best people are spending their best hours on work a machine should do. That’s not a staffing issue. It’s a design flaw.

Your team is drowning in admin

  • Copying databetween Xero, HubSpot, and spreadsheets
  • Manually chasinginvoices and follow-ups
  • Formattingthe same reports every Monday
  • Answeringthe same customer questions on repeat

Growth makes it worse, not better

  • More clientsmore manual onboarding steps
  • More dealsmore CRM updates nobody does
  • More team membersmore coordination overhead
  • More toolsmore things that don’t talk to each other
Your AI team

Meet Scout, Atlas, and Forge

Three agents. Three roles. Built from your actual workflows, deployed inside the tools you already use. No new platforms to learn.

These are examples of what we build — not a fixed menu. Every agent is customised to your business. The names change. The results don’t.

Scout — Sales Automation
Online
Scout
Sales Automation

Finds, qualifies, and books meetings with leads that match your ICP — on autopilot.

Never sleeps. Always prospecting.

Atlas — Support Automation
Online
Atlas
Support Automation

Triages emails, handles support tickets, and escalates only what needs a human.

Your 24/7 front desk.

Forge — Operations Automation
Online
Forge
Operations Automation

Compiles reports, processes invoices, and keeps your ops running without manual input.

Turns chaos into clockwork.

Other agents we’ve built

Onboarding Agent

Auto-creates accounts, sends welcome sequences, assigns tasks to team

Invoice Chaser

Follows up on overdue invoices via email with escalation rules

Meeting Prep Agent

Pulls CRM data, recent emails, and notes before every call

Weekly Reporter

Pulls KPIs from your tools and delivers a clean digest every Monday

Lead Scorer

Scores inbound enquiries against your ideal client profile and routes the hot ones

Compliance Checker

Scans documents against regulatory checklists and flags gaps

Content Repurposer

Turns one blog post into LinkedIn, email, and tweet drafts

Hiring Screener

Scores applications, sends rejections, flags top candidates

Works with Slack, HubSpot, Xero, Gmail, Salesforce, Notion, Monday.com, and 12+ more tools.

New — 4-week cohort course

AI Pod — go from “I should learn AI” to shipping with Claude in 4 weeks.

Written lessons, a matched pod of 4-5 builders like you, a private Slack community, and a Friday live call every week. Co-taught by Batko and Finlay. $999 AUD one-off.

Matched pods of 4-5

Algorithmic match on timezone, experience, and energy.

Community learning

A Claude Code skill posts one anonymised learning a day to Slack.

Live Friday calls

1 hour every Friday with the whole cohort on Zoom.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Book a 30-minute discovery call. If it's a fit, we start with an AI Efficiency Audit — we map your workflows, identify opportunities, and deliver a prioritised roadmap in 7 to 14 days.

Quick wins in the first 30 days. We guarantee 5+ hours per week saved or we keep working until you see it.

Working AI systems deployed in your business. Not slide decks. Not recommendations. Agents that do real work, inside your existing tools, from day one.

No. We build automations that work inside your current stack: Xero, Slack, HubSpot, Gmail, whatever you use.

Any business drowning in repetitive work. We’ve built agents for professional services, SaaS, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and more. If your team has repeatable processes, we can automate them.

Monitoring, fixes, improvements, and new capabilities. Your AI systems get better every month as your business evolves.

Get started

30 minutes. Zero pressure. Total clarity.

Tell us where your team’s time disappears. If we can help, your AI Efficiency Audit starts the same week.

30-minute callNo lock-inMelbourne-based